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Title: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Wes on March 05, 2009, 10:53:59 AM: As the title indicates, I’m asking your help in putting together a list of bands to compete in a no-holds-barred elimination street fighting tournament. These would not necessarily be fights to the death, but death would certainly be a possible outcome in any given fight. Some bands play for keeps.

Things to consider:

Location: These fights would all take place in a theoretical enclosed back alley type of area. So we’re talking brick walls and concrete, limited places to hide or run. Maybe there’s a big garbage dumpster and a fire escape, but no one would be able to escape via the fire escape, it would lead to a (perhaps literal) dead end.

Weapons: Bands would only be allowed to bring in equipment they’d normally have on stage, so no one is packing any heat, unless a girl group enters with Phil Spector in their line-up. What does this mean? Well, if a band decided to bring in any instruments, one might contend that a band with a keytar player would have an advantage over a band with a piano player or traditional stand-up keyboard player, as the keytar would be much easier to use as a weapon. This is, therefore, the only conceivable scenario in which a keytar player might ever be an asset to a band.

Line-ups: All bands would have to compete under an actual, documented incarnation. No cherry-picking an ultimate fighting unit from a band that went through multiple personnel changes. That said, you do get to specify which version of the band you’re sending into the fight. Also, while noting that bands with more members would have a decided numbers advantage, you should also consider whether a seven-member band like Chicago would really be able to overwhelm a tougher power trio, or whether that would just mean four more guys to get savagely beaten up. Solo artists would be relegated to their own side competition unless they had a well-known backing band.

Finally, this is meant to be limited primarily to bands of the rock/pop mode, though exceptions could be made for bands from other genres on a case-by-case basis. Feel free to make your case in as much depth as necessary.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: daveB from Oakland on March 05, 2009, 10:58:52 AM: Two words: Axe bass.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 11:03:57 AM: Some suggestions:

Bon Scott-era AC/DC
Superchunk (I would be very wary of messing with Laura)
Blues Brothers 2000
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: masterofsparks on March 05, 2009, 11:04:49 AM: Kraftwerk
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: daveB from Oakland on March 05, 2009, 11:22:34 AM: A few more thoughts ... was Phil Spector really in the "line up" of any group? I mean, if Spector can be considered a Ronnette than he can also be considered a Ramone, I guess.

Also, a piano has lots of weapon opportunities if you're allowed to chop it up a little bit. You can saw off a piano leg and turn it into a club. You can rip out some piano wire and use it for stabbing and/or strangling. But this raises another question ... does chopping up a piano break the rules of the tournament? One would need an axe (or a fighter could wrest Gene's axe bass from his hands).

Maybe each band can have one designated roadie/handyman/pit-crew type of guy who assists with providing tools and disassembling equipment ... ????

Electrocution seems like a potential scenario for one of these fights.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 05, 2009, 11:34:11 AM: Laibach
Bikini Kill
Gwar (though they would probably have serious peripheral vision problems with those masks)
The Texas Nazis
Public Enemy, with S1Ws
The Wu-Tang Clan, if that's not too obvious
Broken Social Scene (sheer numbers)
The Meatmen
The Cro-Mags
Slap Shot
Marty "Violence" Key of the Pharmacists
Grace Jones
Jay Reatard
Queen, who I imagine would possess some kind of space powers
ELO, ibid.
Parlaiment/Funkadelic, ibid.
Sun Ra, ibid.
Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie, ibid.
Johnny Ramone, solo
Jefferson Airplane, just so they can use Marty Balin as cannon fodder
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: daveB from Oakland on March 05, 2009, 11:48:47 AM: Coldplay

(Because I'd really enjoy seeing those guys get beat up).
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Wes on March 05, 2009, 11:52:27 AM: Quote from: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 11:03:57 AM
Blues Brothers 2000

What about the kid in the group? Is he a liability, taking away from the huge plus that John Goodman brings to the table, or are you maybe thinking maybe people don't want to fight a kid, so they'd hold back a little and Blues Brothers 2000 would gain a psychological advantage?

Quote from: daveB! Oakland! on March 05, 2009, 11:22:34 AM
Also, a piano has lots of weapon opportunities if you're allowed to chop it up a little bit. You can saw off a piano leg and turn it into a club. You can rip out some piano wire and use it for stabbing and/or strangling. But this raises another question ... does chopping up a piano break the rules of the tournament? One would need an axe (or a fighter could wrest Gene's axe bass from his hands).

Excellent points! My take is, I wouldn't even bother bringing a piano into the fight in the first place. The band would be tired just carrying the thing to the fight in the first place, and it would take up valuable fighting room. Any kind of advantage you might get from it would be additionally removed in all the time it would take to disassemble a piano in order to weaponize it. If you're hunkered down trying to rip the legs off your piano, you're almost certainly going to get jumped in the meantime.

But yes, you could/should certainly consider the possibility that any band who brings their gear into a fight runs the risk of having it turned against them. Cheap Trick would be at the most risk, if you ask me. Nielsen would be able to fling his guitar picks at their opponents, making them one of the best long-range threats, but the five-neck guitar would be an an unweidly weapon and the band that Cheap Trick fought would probably be able to break past Zander and Petersson to grab some of Nielsen's 40 other guitars and just go to town on the whole band.

Quote from: daveB! Oakland! on March 05, 2009, 11:22:34 AM
Electrocution seems like a potential scenario for one of these fights.

I don't think there would be any electrical outlets in this alley, so nobody would be plugged in.

Quote from: Groteface Killah on March 05, 2009, 11:34:11 AM
Gwar (though they would probably have serious peripheral vision problems with those masks)

Yes! The peripheral vision problem is something that must be considered for Gwar.

Quote from: Groteface Killah on March 05, 2009, 11:34:11 AM
Public Enemy, with S1Ws

Whether or not the S1Ws would be allowed to compete with PE has been a lingering question. I am open to arguments on this subject.

Quote from: Groteface Killah on March 05, 2009, 11:34:11 AM
Parlaiment/Funkadelic

Funkadelic would be best suited to enter the tournament as Parliament, since they'd be allowed to use giant their giant novelty sunglasses and, if they wanted to go that way, sneak in contraband weapons in their diapers. That said, I still see Parliament being set up for a huge, early upset, since they'd all probably be too stoned to ever really put up a fight.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 05, 2009, 12:08:58 PM: Cheap Trick would fare pretty well. Rick Nielsen's 5-neck guitar could do some serious damage.

Although I guess Bun E. Carlos would be a liability.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Big Plastic Head on March 05, 2009, 12:11:05 PM: The Plasmatics. Wendy O. with a chainsaw!?! I mean c'mon! Bring it!
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 12:12:45 PM: Quote from: Wes on March 05, 2009, 11:52:27 AM
Quote from: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 11:03:57 AM
Blues Brothers 2000

What about the kid in the group? Is he a liability, taking away from the huge plus that John Goodman brings to the table, or are you maybe thinking maybe people don't want to fight a kid, so they'd hold back a little and Blues Brothers 2000 would gain a psychological advantage?

I was thinking he would serve the same role as a midget valet in wrestling, running around, biting and kicking people as a distraction. If things got really bleak Goodman could even toss the kid at somebody's face, then strike while they were trying to peel him off.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 05, 2009, 12:14:37 PM: Tad?
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 12:21:07 PM: Quote from: Wes on March 05, 2009, 11:52:27 AM
Whether or not the S1Ws would be allowed to compete with PE has been a lingering question. I am open to arguments on this subject.

I think they should be allowed to stand by and watch but not actually participate, except for maybe handing out toy guns to Flav and Chuck.

I keep thinking that Terminator X's experience running an ostrich farm would be helpful as well but I haven't quite figured out how.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: yesno on March 05, 2009, 12:31:10 PM: * Would Bez be allowed to fight alongside the Happy Mondays? Or would he be covered by the "Chris L principle" of merely being allowed to watch and dance on the sidelines?

* Bolt Thrower

* The Carter Family

* PM Dawn
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: daveB from Oakland on March 05, 2009, 12:47:11 PM: (http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/village%20people.jpg)

... 'cuz they're FIERCE!!
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 01:09:12 PM: Possible subtopic: Who is the deadliest member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Kid Pain on March 05, 2009, 01:41:36 PM: fake misfits?
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Chris L on March 05, 2009, 01:46:46 PM: Hey, where'd my "Possible subtopic: Who is the deadliest member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" post go ? ! ?
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Spalding on March 05, 2009, 02:09:31 PM: Damaged-era Black Flag
Skrewdriver
Naked Raygun (don't know if they could fight, but it seemed they were all 6.5 ft tall and worked in the trades)
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Martin on March 05, 2009, 02:20:56 PM: Entombed
Norse Savage

Did Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal ever have bands as such?
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: KickTheBobo on March 05, 2009, 02:39:13 PM: at first i was going to say classic line-up Danzig (Glenn, Chuck Biscuits, Eerie Von & John Christ), but then I remembered how GD got layed out in that internet video with a single punch. I think dollars to donuts, the mid-eighties lineup of the Cro-Mags would be pretty good at scrappin' da streets with bareknuckles or broken bottles.

for sheer numbers, and overall badassness you gotta go with the JB's:

(http://www.complex.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/jbs_main.jpg)
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Martin on March 05, 2009, 02:50:23 PM: On that musical note I think Josie/Reprise-era The Meters would be pretty badass. Excons, hustlers and troublemakers the lot of them.

(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/305/themeters2566448.jpg) (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=themeters2566448.jpg)
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 05, 2009, 03:17:46 PM: I want to submit BrokeNCYDE just because I want to see them get turned into creamed corn by the mid-eighties lineup of the Cro-Mags.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Wes on March 05, 2009, 03:22:58 PM: Bobo, I'm glad you caught yourself from falling into the Danzig trap. Danzig getting dropped with one punch keeps him out of the tournament in any form, negating the Danzig/Rollins dream match-up that would have been a certainty in the past. Black Flag is in, though, as Spalding suggests.

The JBs were one of my favorites to win the whole thing, too. Not only could they exploit the numbers game, but James Brown himself is the kind of leader who would no doubt have his team drilled and ready to go with a solid gameplan for each round. He's the ideal player/coach for this kind of thing.

Quote from: Big Plastic Head on March 05, 2009, 12:11:05 PM
The Plasmatics. Wendy O. with a chainsaw!?! I mean c'mon! Bring it!

I can't see them not facing off with chainsaw-car-destruction era Roy Wood and The Move in either a first round match or a special, unsanctioned chainsaw Thunderdome battle.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: daveB from Oakland on March 05, 2009, 03:25:52 PM: Quote from: Martin on March 05, 2009, 02:20:56 PM

Did Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal ever have bands as such?

Don't know about Chuck Norris but ...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Seagalsongs.jpg)

I think there should be an "actors with lame music projects" team ... Russell Crowe, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Jared Leto, Julliette Lewis , etc.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Stupornaut on March 05, 2009, 03:43:50 PM: I pick Wu-Tang to at least advance to the finals based on the following:

-there are, if we are going with the classic lineup, nine of them, plus Cappadonna could probably jump in too
-they are all martial-arts geeks and probably have a whole store of swords (liquid/otherwise) and flying guillotines and smoke bombs and whatnot
-According to "Nutmeg", Ghostface "studied under Bruce Lee, n---a"
-RZA actually bought a bulletproof van because he wanted to fight crime as Bobby Digital for real

Also, I think Bjork would be a pretty formidable dark horse in this thing.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: AaronC on March 05, 2009, 08:24:31 PM: The New Guns N Roses would have this deadly weapon on their side:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/heartonastick/bumblefoot1.jpg)
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 05, 2009, 09:19:10 PM: My daughter Ruby from Maplewood wants to mention that in a fight between Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, the Jonas Brothers might win because Joe can kick 5 feet 6 inches in the air (she saw it on "The Making of The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience."). She also wants me to add this. --> :o
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Big Plastic Head on March 05, 2009, 09:46:24 PM: Quote from: JonFromMaplewood on March 05, 2009, 09:19:10 PM
My daughter Ruby from Maplewood...

THAT is great!
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: mike_b on March 05, 2009, 09:58:33 PM: The Misfats

(http://www.misfats.com/photos/060615221459.jpg)

The Jesus Lizard look like they'd fight dirty, too:

(http://davidwmsims.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/tjl_promo_springs.jpg)
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: mrCoffea on March 06, 2009, 12:20:20 AM: Let's not forget about Bearforce 1

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM[/youtube]
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Regular Joe on March 06, 2009, 01:53:51 AM: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

(http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/5702/ladysmithblackmambazocr.jpg)

Squad Numbers: 7-10

Weapons & Strengths: Overwhelming numbers. The ability to create perfect harmony, which confuses opponents in battle. Microphone stands wielded like staves. The whole group is uniformed in loose fitting dashiki's, allowing for greater range of motion and speed.

History: Grew up in South Africa under apartheid. Headman, original member and brother of founder Joseph Shabalala, was murdered. Ladysmith Black Mambazo is no stranger to violence. "Mambazo" means "Axe".

Peak Fighting Era: Any of the original 60's lineups.

The only other debatable era is the mid eighties era and only then because of Paul Simon. While he's mostly useless in a fight other than serving as cannon fodder, he is tiny, and thus could serve as a Buster Blues type distraction. His caucasian heritage may also be an advantage against any of the more extreme oi! bands.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: AaronC on March 06, 2009, 10:06:25 AM: Brian Jonestown Massacre - Probably would get disqualified for fighting each other.
(http://www.cactuscouch.com/images/music/brian-jonestown-massacre.jpg)
Kevin Allin - Unpredictable. The nudity may throw the opponent off.
(http://www.astrodispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/22/92950_gg.jpg)
Prince - Tiny, but quick. Interesting weapon.
(http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060531/060531_prince_vlarg_11a.widec.jpg)
Motorhead - Lemmy.
(http://www.supanet.com/media/00/08/65/motorhead_210.jpg)
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: scratchbomb on March 06, 2009, 10:50:23 PM: Do the 1985 Chicago Bears count, since they recorded "Super Bowl Shuffle"?
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JustSheaNo on March 06, 2009, 10:51:30 PM: (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/files/2007/05/0518polyphonic.jpg)
Th Polyphonic Spree (sheer numbers)

(http://www.allthingsorbison.com/travelingwilburys/TravelingWilburys.jpg)
The Traveling Wilburys, because Roy Orbison is bad-ass

(http://blogs.sun.com/docteger/resource/Runaways1976.jpg)
The Runaways. Seriously, those are some tough broads.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Steeley Chris on March 06, 2009, 11:10:56 PM: I'm gonna throw The Skatalites (circa 1964-65) into the mix. There were ten of them, a lot of brass instruments, Don Drummond developed some serious mental problems and murdered his girlfriend, and Jamaica's tough place to begin with.

I'd like to see the Oppressed fight Skrewdriver.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 08, 2009, 08:34:16 PM: Quote from: JustSheaNo on March 06, 2009, 10:51:30 PM

(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/files/2007/05/0518polyphonic.jpg)
Th Polyphonic Spree (sheer numbers)

(http://www.eazye.info/img/nwa.jpg)

N.W.A. could destroy fifty Polyphonic Sprees.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Regular Joe on March 08, 2009, 08:58:28 PM: Quote from: Regular Joe on March 06, 2009, 01:53:51 AM
Ladysmith Black Mambazo

I just realized this is a ROCK elimination tourney. Strike my entry from the list please!
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: scratchbomb on March 09, 2009, 09:27:56 AM: Starland Vocal Band

(http://www.mmgmusic.com/images/artists/pub-Starland.jpg)

Would you fuck with these guys? I sure wouldn't.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 09, 2009, 02:44:10 PM: Seriously (?), Wes, I think Scratchbomb's right about the Chicago Bears. I don't think they can be taken if one does not cheat ...although I have no idea what cheating would would look like in this environment.

Unless someone remembers a whole nation putting out a single, I think this Tournament is over.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Clint on March 09, 2009, 04:28:47 PM: Has no one considered the Soviets?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuFJoexdlU[/youtube]

I think the entire red army choir could take on da bay-ers, though I have no idea if they would qualify.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JustSheaNo on March 09, 2009, 10:18:22 PM: Quote from: JonFromMaplewood on March 09, 2009, 02:44:10 PM
Seriously (?), Wes, I think Scratchbomb's right about the Chicago Bears. I don't think they can be taken if one does not cheat ...although I have no idea what cheating would would look like in this environment.

Unless someone remembers a whole nation putting out a single, I think this Tournament is over.

JonfromMaplewood, what're the odds of the Plastic Ono Band (Keith Moon edition, circa '69) taking out da bears? Keith adds that special kind of crazy... and Phil Spector produced them, to boot.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Wes on March 10, 2009, 09:57:42 AM: I had to take a few days to consider the implications of The 1985 Chicago Bears joining the tournament. They absolutely qualify and would now enter as the odds-on favorites to win the whole thing, bringing 21 elite, world class musician-athletes to the table. You have to think that the Fridge alone could pick up entire duos or power trios and airplane spin them over his head into submission. Maury Buford's cowbell would, arguably, be the most useful weapon in the entire tourney, which would make this the first time a punter or a cowbell player would be the most valuable player in any group.

Looking for weaknesses, the most obvious is that the Bears wouldn't be able to bring their helmets, as they performed without them. I can see only one other potential weakness: leadership. I'm a fan of Jim McMahon, and the Punky QB seems like the ideal leader for a take-no-prisoners street fight, but I've always been bothered by Steve Fuller's contributions to the Super Bowl Shuffle, where he threatens to step in and replace McMahon, which is way out of line for a back-up QB. If my band had to take on the Bears, I would try to exploit this potential crack in their armor.

Otherwise, the only way I can see the Bears going down is through attrition or maybe if the team gets bored or cocky and starts letting Mike Singletary take on opposing bands by himself. But even then, Singletary might be able to make it through two or three rounds unassisted.

The Polyphonic Spree would definitely get overtaken by any number of smaller, tougher bands. A strong trio would be able to just tear them apart, and any standard four or five person band would destroy them. I just don't see any toughness there, and they have to fight in their robes. I envision the whole Spree falling into a panic as soon as the fight starts, trying to run away and tripping in their robes and the whole thing turning into a bloodbath.

They'd be replaced in the tournament by USA For Africa, which could send almost 40 members into the fight. While other supergroups might not be able to pull it together and work as a cohesive unit, USA For Africa would have solid guidance between each round from Quincy Jones and player/coach Bob Geldoff. And within the group, you have multiple performers who can and have worked together, including the entire Jackson Five, Hall and Oates and the Steve Perry/Kenny Loggins team. You also have a number of people who look like they could have handled themselves in a fight like Huey Lewis, Waylon Jennings, Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen. Kim Carnes seemed like she could probably throw down, too. There's also the Dan Aykroyd factor, where opposing bands might become confused and assume they were fighting the Blues Brothers.

Negatives for USA For USA For Africa: two blind guys, Lindsey Buckingham.

Shea, I'm intrigued by the Plastic Ono Band suggestion, but I think I need an official line-up headcount. If there's a line-up that includes all of Elephant's Memory and Keith Moon, they would be excellent dark horse contenders. A Jim Keltner line-up would probably do worse than a Moon, Ringo or Alan White backed band. I also wonder, now, whether or not allowing the Chicago Bears and the Plastic Ono Band opens the door to the entire Concert for Bangladesh band. These are dangerous waters.

Another question: does Prince enter with the Revolution or the New Power Generation? My first impulse is NPG, since Rosie Gaines and that huge drummer guy are probably tougher than everybody in The Revolution. New Power Generation would also have the general numbers advantage, since there are some additional singer-dancers.

On the other hand, Wendy & Lisa would be way tougher than Diamond & Pearl. Also, any team preparing to fight the Revolution would plan their strategy around taking out Prince first, but much like Saddam Hussein, Revolution-era Prince always stocked his band with a couple of guys who looked like himself, so he'd be able to hide among his dopplegangers and throw the other bands off. There's also a possibility that Dr. Fink would be able to patch up wounded members of The Revolution between rounds, or at least fix any instruments that had been broken.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on March 10, 2009, 03:44:15 PM: i love you.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JustSheaNo on March 10, 2009, 07:04:46 PM: Quote from: Wes on March 10, 2009, 09:57:42 AM
Shea, I'm intrigued by the Plastic Ono Band suggestion, but I think I need an official line-up headcount. If there's a line-up that includes all of Elephant's Memory and Keith Moon, they would be excellent dark horse contenders. A Jim Keltner line-up would probably do worse than a Moon, Ringo or Alan White backed band. I also wonder, now, whether or not allowing the Chicago Bears and the Plastic Ono Band opens the door to the entire Concert for Bangladesh band. These are dangerous waters.

What a fantastic response.

The full lineup for the Plastic Ono Band that I am proposing is from December 15, 1969, Lyceum London UNICEF Benefit concert:

John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie, Keith Moon, Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Bobby Keys, Alan White, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, 'Legs' Larry Smith, and Dino Danelli

Sadly not the rendition featuring all of Elephant's memory.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 10, 2009, 07:38:38 PM: Quote from: Wes on March 10, 2009, 09:57:42 AM
...but much like Saddam Hussein, Revolution-era Prince always stocked his band with a couple of guys who looked like himself, so he'd be able to hide among his dopplegangers and throw the other bands off. There's also a possibility that Dr. Fink would be able to patch up wounded members of The Revolution between rounds, or at least fix any instruments that had been broken.

While we are on the subject of fights, these two sentences one after the other made me laugh until it hurt. Good work with those combinations, Wes.
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: AaronC on March 12, 2009, 11:36:57 AM: If athlete/musicians are allowed, I'd like to see Shaquille O'Neal in this tourney. He probably couldn't take out the entire 85 Bears, but he would do some damage. If contributors are allowed to participate, Shaq could team up with Fu Schnickens, Method Man & RZA, Biggie, or maybe the unreleased Shaq's Superfriends http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal_Presents_His_Superfriends,_Vol._1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal_Presents_His_Superfriends,_Vol._1).
Title: Re: Help Me Seed An Elimination Rock Street Fighting Tournament
Post by: Chris L on March 12, 2009, 01:01:21 PM: Would Bob Dylan and the Band be allowed to fight w/ Civil War-era muskets? I know they never performed with such weapons but in some ways it would just feel so right. If they face the Bears in an early round they may even be able to pick off enough players with those things before being overwhelmed that it would even the odds a little more for other groups.

Also, Jackyl may be an even more gruesome seed than the Plasmatics.